Gestalt therapy

n. An approach to psychotherapy that combined the ideas of Gestalt formation with an existential framework. In Gestalt therapy the therapist feeds back observations about a client's behavior in the present moment, asks the client about his or her experience in the present moment, and has him/her engage in activities mimicking the experienced ideas, emotions, or conflicts. These systematically frustrate the client's avoidance of present experience until he/she experiences a Gestalt or completion of the avoidance and enters the experience of the here and now.